Agenda MON SEP 25
Riddle: The Mirror Paradox
Housekeeping
- First Mandatory Conference Reminder and/or Follow-up
- Zoom Recordings
- Grades
Counterintuitive Questions
- Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in?
- Can we democratize water?
Mechanics
- Demonstration: Informal In-Text Citation Childhood Obesity (APA Style)
- The Lecture/Demo includes (at the bottom) a Homework Assignment
- Exercise: Informal Citation Exercise (Daniel Flath)
Housekeeping
- Still not Categorizing your Posts?
- They won’t show up in the sidebar under Authors
- They won’t show up under your own Avatar in the sidebar
- They won’t show up in “feed lists” for the task
- It will appear to an objective observer that you’re not posting your assignments at all
- Check now to see that all your Tasks are correctly categorized
In-Class Task
- Click on My Hypothesis in the right-hand sidebar.
- From the resulting feed, choose one or more My Hypothesis posts that intrigue you to want to read further
- Leave feedback for 1-3 of your classmates as Replies to their posts.
- Offer a counterintuitive angle
- Suggest good research material
- Assess the quality of thinking shown in the six steps
- Make any substantive assessment that could help your classmate
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Counterintuitive Fall 2023 
I understood how mirrors worked before this class I just didn’t have a way to explain it in a way that makes sense.
. we are citizens of a country because the country claims us. we are part of the whole of the nation and the nation needs us to keep it running and ” fake” citizens do give as much as they get in that nations eyes
. we use informal citations when writing a essay we name the source( article/publication) name of said publication and uses ” said” language to covey what the source is arguing then name the author directly this keeps the reader interested
. using Italics makes the name of the publication known
the way the mirror reflect is always the same and it can be different to us based on the way you are looking for it from what angel or side.
Mirrors and the way they reflect and invert people has always been a topic I try not to think about only because it confuses me. But the more I looked at it today it made a little more sense, but at the same time still raised more questions. I don’t understand why they reflect, but i’m understanding the difference in inverting.
Class Notes Sep 25
– the mirror reflects things front to back not left to right or up and down
– People argue we have an immigration issue, what about birth rates? are people having too many children
– Reference page not “works cited”
– Do not indent on WordPress
– not always a quotation in a citation
1)Explored the paradoxical nature of mirrors, questioning whether they show, if they reverse left/right or front/back, challenging our intuition about reflection.
2)Discussed the Yapese people’s use of massive stone discs as currency, challenging conventional views of money and value, prompting us to rethink currency systems and cultural practices.
3) Additionally, we covered the use of informal in-text APA citations, and how to properly implement it in our writings, enhancing our ability to properly reference sources in academic writing within our articles.
class notes 9/25
– We began class by discussing the mirror paradox. How simple words like “reflection” for why a mirror works the way it does and “gravity” for why things fall may help if we know what those words mean in the context of the situation but if we didn’t know what these words meant, it doesn’t explain why a mirror works the way it does or why things fall when you drop them.
– Professor Hodges urged people to schedule and attend their mandatory hypothesis meetings and how to schedule them.
– Professor Hodges also talked about grades and how he doesn’t exactly care that much about them.
– We also went over some formatting for our Stone Money essays which most things are formatting issues that are easy fixes that can help improve our grade and allow us to have more positive feedback.
– Professor Hodges used some people’s essays as examples during class on how to fix certain grammatical and formatting eras.
– He went over things such as: no in text citations, center your title, no double spaces between paragraphs, etc.
– The formatting for our work is APA rather than MLA.
– We talked about how more people complain about an influx of immigrants rather than a high birth rate.
– An example of China was brought up and how for a while they only allowed one child per family.
– Professor Hodges talked about how it is imperative to monitor our population within the limits of the resources that we have.
– We discussed potential reasons why being born in a country gives you automatic citizenship, still not a very clear answer.
– Certain areas have laws prohibiting against the collection of rainwater such as areas that have droughts for long periods of time.
– Professor Hodges discussed the mechanics behind an in-text APA citation (publication, article, said language, paraphrase, quotation).
– You should only really use said language once.
– Parenthetical citations are not a part of APA formatting and should not be used in a paper written in APA style format.
– It should not take a paragraph to introduce a quote in your essay.
We are seen to have a right to the land we are born on, which is why you are granted citizenship in the country your born in. Truthfully, its all based on what a society, or governments of the world believe for it to be, and that this is an easy way to control immigration.
You can democratize water, if it is on your property, you have a right to that water. That water can be part of your property if you legally own the land which it falls or resides.
We went over the corrections needed to make to our Stone Money essays in order to get the into the format acceptable. We talked about how we don’t notice things we don’t see, such as how a mirror is flipped front to back, or even just the air around us. We went over the citizenship in countries and the question of why we can’t just live when we want and people cannot move to the U.S. when ever they want. More in depth on this subject are on a smaller scale, your own property, how people cannot collect rain water in places where the rain may be important to the ecosystem. Then we moved onto the APA citation criteria , also known as “informal” or “in text”, for the writings that we will be completing in this class.
Today’s class we discussed the mirror’s reflection and how it’s always consistent and the same. In other senses it could reflect and very different image which is still very fascinating to me. We then discussed why we are citizens of our birth place which makes very sense to me. Then we talked about could we democratize water. We then talked about the newer APA citation styles that now dominates the academic writing world. We elaborated more on the topic and how our class is going to be using the informal style. We went over a lot of examples of this APA citation to get familiar with it.
Would you notice air? Can air be noticed like how we swim in water? The only way we can feel air is when there is wind moving things about.
Why is the view in a mirror flipped? Why do things fall? While words like gravity and such exist, they are simply words invented to suit a situation not an explanation of what is happening. The natural properties of the mirror are what cause it to flip perspectives along its horizontal access when oriented in its proper place. In class discussion of said mirror brought up ideas on the potential possibilities of the mirror’s cause of reflection.
What if the mirror doesn’t actually flip anything? It flips things front to back just like how we perceive those around us.
This lecture involves plenty of mental gymnastics in its thinking. I think that if Professor Hodges had a mirror to help in the demonstration it could go by smoother.
The importance of properly tagging our work when handing it in was stressed even more so.
Parenthetical citations will not be used in our writing. What would go inside said parentheses will instead be worked into our writing and grammar. The ability to update the HTML code was also shown to us, sometimes when importing the writing from Word or Docs there are formatting errors in WordPress which can be fixed through the code editor.
Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in?
Immigration as a counterintuitive point was brought up. An in-class discussion on how immigration causes strained resources and how the same thing goes for birthrate. Limiting people on where they want to live and when does not make any sense to the Professor. This question does not have an answer to the professor, the question was posed to the class as food for thought.
The answer of keeping people out through a sense of superiority was brought up as one has to really screw up to be kicked out of one’s home nation. If the nation does not like you, however, you can just about throw all hopes of getting in goodbye.
Can we democratize water?
The earth laughs at the feeble attempts of man to claim the resources around us. Can I collect the water that falls on my property? It completely depends on where one lives like in drought-ridden states where it is against the law to collect rainwater.
Water will more than likely be the cause of the next big war.
APA citation is the new kid on the block in terms of being the official citation form and we use a specific flavor of in-text citation. Make it clear that an article is about to be cited then cite the location, the name of the article, and the publisher. Quotations are not a necessity of writing we can paraphrase instead. Said language is very important to writing but it should only be used once per paragraph.
The author should be listed when referencing them whether it be paraphrases or quotes. Intext citation allows us to use less space taken up by the parenthetical citation.
-Begin class with a small discussion about, what is air and how hard it is to explain.
-Move onto a riddle about why mirrors read front to back.
– We then talk about our peers stone money drafts.
-Start talking about counterintuitive questions, one such as why are we citizens of the Country we are born in, we come to the conclusion of there’s no good answer.
– Explains APA Citation- provides enough information so reader can find the source.
– We then finish with an exercise of APA Citation
Class Notes:
We discussed the Mirror Paradox on why looking in a mirror flips everything.
We talked about Cindy Crawford, A famous model and how she has a mole on the left side of he face along her smile line.
We went over how if you didn’t do Stone Money ,the professor will put a zero there to let you know to do it. What should be in and how many words should be in it.
We discussed how immigration is a problem and how too many people in the country could be dangerous because there’s not enough resources.Too many people are having babies making the population grow.
We are citizens of the country we’re born in because we are born in a certain nation and us being born there makes us a part of it.
It depends on where you live to democratize water because in some places it’s illegal.
In formal in text citation.We cite the source in the paragraph and put what they stated.Provides enough information so readers can find the sources in the references.
Quotes are place in quotation marks and publication is italicized.
Class notes:
Mirror Paradox
Blog Posts
-Use APA
-No indents
-Title
-Use references instead of works cited
-No in text citations
-You can edit the code to adjust some issues like formatting
Counterintuitive Questions:
1) We only have so many resources, so if too many people are here we wont have enough resources which can worsen poverty. The same happens if the birth rate is way too high. They want to control who enters and exits.
2) You can in some places and you can’t in others. I’m guessing that may be because of draughts and to prevent you taking it from something or somewhere that may need it.
APA Citation
-Informal Intext APA citation used in this class specifically
– Example (In an article at the Center for Disease Control’s website called “Childhood Obesity Causes and Consequences,” the CDC issues the warning that a primary cause of excess weight gain in children is “eating high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and beverages” such as sugary drinks.)
-Use said language to declare you are about to cite something or add something to a citation.
-Not everything needs to be in quotes to need to be cited, paraphrasing needs to cited as well
-Put the article title so readers know which article it came from.
-Articles and quotes in quotation marks, and publications italicized
-Make sure you quote the correct author of your book
-Use natural language in citations
notes of 9/25/2023:
discussion about the reflection of the mirror and how you look on it.
reminder about the mandatory meeting and check the recording for wherever how already did the meeting.
talk about grades.
we learn some points about how to write an essay with having a tittle, make paragraphs, no Pranathi’s to represent the author and the way to put the word reference at the end of the essay.
class discussion was about are we citizens of the country we’re born in, and we would like to live in countries other than the country we are born in, and can we collect the water from the rain how land in my property because I owned.
APA citation technique
learn each letter style what’s mean.
the way to quoter the author of the book in your essay.
we are citizens because our parents gave birth to us on land. if someone startec camping on my front lawn i’d kick him off and put him in a catapult. if water falls on my land, it is mine. i will collect it.
water is becoming less and less available and comes in unmanagable amounts and the next wars will be fought over water. signs of it everywhere. claiming of common water rights. water.
Class Notes:
The first thing we went over in class was a reminder on how to post your stuff in the feedback tab
We talked about Cindy Crawford, a famous model, and on the left side of her face, she has a mole by the top corner of her lip.
We went over grades and how we do not have any yet but you will be grading our work soon in the upcoming days you also went over stone money and how if you didn’t do it the professor will put it in as a zero so it remains you to do it.
We discussed the challenges posed by immigration, expressing concerns about the potential dangers of an excessive population due to limited resources. An issue we touched upon was the increasing birth rates contributing to the expanding population.
We are citizens of the country that we were born in because when you are born in a certain nation than when you are born in that nation then you become a part of it.
For you to democratize water it is based on where you live and your location because in some places it is illegal to democratize water
In a formal in-text citation, we incorporate the source within the paragraph, attributing the information to the original source, and this practice should provide sufficient information to enable readers to locate the source in the references. Quotes should be enclosed in quotation marks, and the publication source should be italicized.
Class Notes:
Counter intuitive: It seems counterintuitive that you must be a citizen of the country you’re born into. No matter where people are from, no one likes native foreigners not from the area. When water becomes less available, it will either disappear or create a war.
Use informal in text citation when writing in APA, which eliminates the parenthetical citation. Informal citations provide enough information about the author’s title and publication within the context/paraphrasing of the writing without stating the full source.
Class Notes 9/25
– Through the review of how mirrors work, students were able to learn how counterintuitive everyday objects we use are. By speaking of the way a mirror works, front to back, it allows students to take away the counterintuitive aspect of mirrors flipping the object in the reflection opposite of what one would think. This lesson allowed students to have a deeper understanding and observation of the world around them.
– During conversation, Professor Hodges introduces students to the aspect of clear concise writing that get the points across. This is a good thing for students to keep in mind when writing an essay or any bit of text at all.
– While discussing the counterintuitive questions, it shows that there is no true sense or answer to the current issues within society and public relations today. Students are able to take away how we should be questioning things, rather than just going along with them. By looking into certain aspects of life, students can take away how counterintuitive everyday life situations are.
– Professor Hodges showed students the proper format of APA style and how they should reference sources at the end of their work, by centering the word “references” with the sources below it. The word references should not be bolded or have any following punctuation, and the size must be consistent with the rest of the text. Professor Hodges also went over the expected formatting of posts, and how students should properly cite sources in text according to APA style. Students are able to link the source within the text, to limit the need for a reference section at all. Students should be sure to name the author, article name, and publication name, even the publication date or page number if applicable. By using a combination of direct quotes and paraphrasing, it will improve the writing.
– learned about how we perceive an image through a mirror, photograph, and face to face.
– have to text and ask for a mandatory meeting
– is immigration in itself bad?
– thinking about why we allow the government and society to continue to handle immigration as they do
– how I would react if a person started camping out on my yard
– how much of the Earth can we own. When buying a piece of land do we own the water that falls on it or the airspace above the land we “own”.
– went over categories again
– learned again how to write in APA citation style and how to implement that on our Stone Money paper
We started the class off by talking about the “feedback please” category for our hypothesis.
Then, we started talking about the mirror paradox. The mirror paradox is all about flipping.
– Mirrors do not flip us vertically
– Mirrors flip us front to back
Cindy Crawford example, she has a mole on the left side of her face and she would know that mole is on the left side of her face because it’s the side of her left hand. But, in class to a new English speaker we would have to explain we are staring at her right side because she is facing us.
Counter Intuitive questions
Why are we citizens of the country we were born in?
– Immigration is difficult for foreigners.
– Immigration is competing with American citizens for jobs
– Overpopulation
Can we democratize water?
– In a way, yes. If you want to collect water that falls on your land go ahead.
– It would be wrong of the government to take away that water that falls on our land -since we bought it and own it.
Stone money category archives
– Going over the standards for what we need in the assignment.
– Make sure to have title
– Have a reference page, centered in APA style
– Get rid of the in text citation tagging. Ex: (Walt,2011).
Class Notes 9/25:
-Our eyes can make us believe things that we know aren’t true. We all know how mirrors are reflecting things back at us, but because images appear flipped when we look in the mirror, we assume that its flipping images as well. Maybe we just don’t understand what reflecting actually means, but I think this shows how our eyes can lead us to conclusions that we aren’t 100% sure of. This makes sense because its hard to doubt things that we can physically see.
-The reason why we can’t go to any country whenever we want is because we allow governments to set these restrictions in place. I think if every person on Earth started rioting against their government specifically to lift restrictions on who can immigrate then they would lift the restrictions. But that would never happen because we’re fine with these restrictions being in place.
-What if instead of rain falling on your property, it was an asteroid instead? And let’s say that this asteroid had an undiscovered element. Most people would be okay with the property owner keeping the water, but who’s to say that people would be okay with them keeping the asteroid. This new element could have an important use somewhere in the world of science, and people could want scientists to gain ownership of it. I feel like with all laws, property ownership law has a limit to what people are going to accept.
-There are no set of things that have to be included in an informal citation. As long as the reader can tell who or what you are properly crediting, it is okay. As someone who’s least favorite aspect of writing is citations, I obviously much prefer this style of informal citing to a more rigid set of rules that must be included in academic journals.
-Mirrors don’t flip things left to right but front to back.
-You can’t live anywhere you want because no one likes foreigners. You start to understand this concept if someone were to start camping out in your front yard.
-Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource, so can you collect the water that falls on your property? This is a difficult question to answer because on one hand it falls on your property so it should be yours. However, what about the other people that live further downstream? Should they not get any water because you took all of the water flowing down stream?
-When using informal APA in-text citations enough information should be built into the sentence to where you shouldn’t need to include any addition information for the reader to the source referenced.
9/25
Why can’t you live wherever you want in the world?
Countries don’t like foreigners. You probably need a right visa to go to these places. But it is extremely hard to move anywhere. It is like a club that your not in but are trying to join.
I believe that you can democratize water. If anything is on or above my property then it would be encroaching my right.
Intext citation is kind of weird but its the way we have to do it.
We have a citation homework that is gonna be pretty easy. Class was good overall.
Class Notes 09/25
Mirror Paradox
– A mirror can flip words back but not your reflection.
– Your image is flipped to the opposite side.
– It flips things front to back which is the Z-axis
Housekeeping
– Mandatory Conference Reminder/Follow-Up
– Zoom Meetings and Grades
Counterintuitive Questions:
Why are we citizens of the country we’re born in?
– Non-citizens can be overpopulated by those who are citizens in the US.
– You can’t kill people off from having children.
– You have the choice of where you live but you need the government’s permission to move out-state.
Can we democratize water?
– Owning land and claiming it as yours
– Rainfall on your property as yours.
– Rain is not yours because it’s nature’s water that helps your land.
– Water is being fought over as it’s running out.
– Planting a tree between yours and someone else property is still yours as you grew it.
Stone Money
– References are centered in the middle
– Don’t use tags.
Mechanics:
– Informal Citation (APA Style)
– Adding a link to the text for the website
Class Notes:
– Started with a counterintuitive question on how mirrors work and why it doesn’t function vertically.
– We are citizens of the country we’re born in because it’s what we know and are accustomed to.
– I guess we as US citizens do take the fact that we live in the US, but one doesn’t think about why we can’t move to other countries.
– The Professor went over what the format of the Stone Money draft should be. Then showing models of do’s and don’ts’.
9.25.23 notes
• It is important to put your first drafts into the “feedback please” category in order for the professor to give you useful feedback to better your draft, and later your grade.
• Found out that a mirror flips things along the z-axis (front to back) instead of the x-axis (left to right)
• “Is immigration a problem?” is a counterintuitive question because some people see that it is hard for the immigrants themselves and others can say it is a problem if we let too many people in the country.
• How strange it sounds to say “you own land” when you buy property. If you have a tree hanging over your neighbor’s yard, they could cut that part of the tree off to the property line if they wanted to.
• You only need one post for the Stone Money assignment, you just edit the original post and add it back to “feedback please” category for a regrade.
• When posting on the blog, it is important to add ALL of your work to your own category. This allows the professor to see all the work you have done/ been keeping up with.
• The importance of showing up to class for reminders and helpful information provided to help you make blog posts successfully.
• Offer whatever you can in your citations in order for your reader to be able to locate where you got your information from (title, author, website, section, publication, source).
Class Notes:
– In the beginning of class we went over how mirror works when looking at your reflection and on why words and or phrases on clothing appears backwards (mirror paradox).
– After receiving our grade for “Stonemoney” we are allowed to re work on it to receive a better grade if we choose to do so.
– During class we had a little discussion/ debate on immigration. The question was, do you feel that immigration is a problem or not? I believe that immigration is totally fine as long as it is done legally and everybody is documented when they come in to our country.
– When posting assignments in the blog do not indent the paragraphs professor Hodges explained to us. Also when we are adding a reflection page we must label the page as our “reflection” page and center it at the top of the page.
– We talked about the rights of people properties. I learned today that when you own property you also own the air space that Is above your property line as well so no one can build over your property line.
Notes:
-I was always curious about how mirrors worked but after looking at the mirror paradox riddle I finally kind of understand how they work
-I learned how to properly use in text citation in APA format
-the counterintuitive questions made me think deeper. Why are we citizens in the country were born in? Is it a population control thing?
-I had a better understanding of how to categorize my blog posts
Notes 9/25
-according to the agenda the professor opened the class up today with a riddle. Asking us about reflection if they reverse left, right, front, or back.
-He also went over our MANDATORY conference about our Hypothesis via Zoom.
-I believe he also went over grades in which he stated that we didn’t really care much about them.
-I also learned that he mentioned that people complain more about an influx of immigrants rather than a high birth rate. For example, in China families were only able to have 1 kid per family.
-In my opinion, I believe that people need to worry more about the high birth rate rather than the influx of immigrants because if the birth rate increases and the death rate stays the same then the population will increase immensely. Which will cause us to start running out of supplies.
-I believe he also went over some corrections that a lot of us need to make to our Stone Money essay.
Class Notes: 9/20/23
-per usual we opened class with a riddle about how mirrors show our reflection. Come to find out where you think they are reflecting along the x axis , that is not the case the in fact reflect across the Z axis
– prof then brought up a conversation about immigration where we were told to think if immigration in the US was a positive or negative then he began to ask since we are born on earth why can’t we just pick up and move wherever in the world freely. this conversation ended with no specific answer.
-We dug into our stone money papers some more. professor explained to us that when using in text citations as long as me mention the source before stating it we don’t have to use the “(author, year)” after
-We had another quick run down of how to use the categories tabs such as: “feedback please” “Stone Money” and the category for the authors work
Class Notes!
* The Cindy Crawford mirror conundrum confuses me to the extreme. I have never sat and thought about mirrors much I just accepted it. But challenging the simple can help discover new things about our world.
* When we format our essays in word press we shouldn’t use indents or author names but we should have a proper reference page and center our title.
* Our counterintuitive population and immigration discussion reinforced my opinion that living in new places should be easier. Discovering new places and cultures is important because it provides different perspective. Also I feel like this is our world and we don’t get to appreciate it enough because we restrict ourselves to specific borders.
Here’s what we did in class
We talked about why mirrors flip the way they do. Most people believe that mirrors flip from right to left but they really flip from front to back. When you point at a mirror you finger gets closer to it and the parts that are further away from the mirror are also farther away in the mirror when you look at it.
We also talk about why we are citizens in the country that we are born in. In a way it shows that if we were born here, we get to do certain things in the country just because we were born here. whereas immigrants on the other hand don’t have citizenship when they first arrive and because of this as we talked about, they have to earn it by doing all sorts of stuff like applying for it, have a background check, explain why they want to have it, etc. And it’s a very long process in order to get citizenship to another country.
One last thing was we went over how the drafts should look like properly write the stone money essay and what it should be like and how they should be done a certain way. It was also shown.
In today’s class, we delved into the intriguing paradox of mirrors and how they reflect images, sparking thought-provoking discussions about their behavior. We also explored the concept of citizenship, questioning why we are citizens of the countries where we are born. The debate on immigration and birth rates added depth to our understanding of this complex issue. Additionally, we learned about the democratization of water and the challenges surrounding water rights and access. The class covered the mechanics of informal in-text citations in APA style, emphasizing the importance of clear referencing in academic writing. 🪞🤔🌍 #MirrorParadox #Citizenship #WaterRights #Citations